MOPA in crisis: students and parents stage demonstration in Arles

After the crisis triggered by the sudden layoff of MOPA director Julien Deparis, around 140 students and their parents have staged a demonstration in Arles to protest the situation at the school, according to French newspaper La Provence. The CIPEN and the school’s new director have seen themselves pressured to reply, issuing a statement on the matter, which predictably contests the image of crisis described by the students, saying they have hired replacements and that only 9 teachers have left out of 57, among other subjects covered by the statement. The students have answered that 9 have left now, that the pedagogy has already suffered and that around 20 more teachers plan not to come back after the current school term ends. More on La Provence newspaper: “Arles : parents and students mobilized to ‘save’ MOPA”, “MOPA in crisis : the reaction of the school and the CIPEN“. (French)